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How it feels to try and get Plex to import all your torrented media (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Sivilian@lemmy.zip 46 points 3 days ago

Lol Plex.

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 days ago

[-] gdbjr@piefed.social 16 points 3 days ago

Instead of memes maybe post the issue you are having so we can help? Plex is usually pretty great at importing media if you name it correctly.

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Oh. Thanks, I wasn't actually wanting help today. I just wanted to post memes to blow off some steam

[+] M137@lemmy.today -10 points 3 days ago

Why the fuck are you (still) using plex at all?

[-] gdbjr@piefed.social 18 points 3 days ago

Not OP, but I run plex over Jellyfin as for me plex is just better. Has better clients, looks better, better features. Jellyfin isn't always the answer. Maybe if someone releases a apple TV app that is better then meh, I will spin my jellyfin server backup .

[-] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Also super easy to share libraries because me and my friends like to share media. Jellyfin as far as I know has no way to share libraries across multiple accounts and locations. It’s nice being on a trip in Costa Rica and being able to access my content abroad or my friends that are abroad

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yea, Jellyfin is far from perfect, and it's what I use.

It's a bit more work than it should be, like it loves to identify stuff as Asian if it doesn't have a perfect match, sometimes with folders properly structured with year and IMDB ID.

I'm constantly having to fix metadata or even remove a specific movie, rescan, return the movie folder, rescan, and then it sees it right.

I've had to blow away my entire Jellyfin database multiple times this year because it just loses it's mind and won't properly identify something.

It's what I use, that doesn't mean it's perfect, but it is an incredible value, and it doesn't phone home or any other nonsense.

[-] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

but it is an incredible value, and it doesn't phone home or any other nonsense.

This right here. Especially the last bit. ☝🏼

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I haven't once had to reset metadata or my database in the 2 years now I've been running jellyfin, UNLESS the physical file changes.

Lately I've been going through and transcoding all my media to HEVC mkvs (compatability reasons) including renaming all of them to a standard naming convention and only a small handful had to be manually fixed.

[-] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

For me I use Emby, not only because I found it first, but I can't justify switching to Jellyfin because the UI is just too old-looking. I prefer curves

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